He smiled, eyes sliding out of focus. "I was dreaming…" "Dreaming what?" "I don't remember… we were singing. In the rain…

Friday, 4 January 2013

techniques of ecstasy

Reification, the Marxist scholar Tom Bottomore writes, is the “most
radical and widespread form of alienation characteristic of modern
capitalist society,” the transformation of “human properties, relations
and actions into properties, relations and actions of man-produced
things which have become independent of man and govern his life